Sell My Soul Chords & Tabs

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Sell my Soul by Midnight Oil
from the album "Diesel and Dust"
This is the way I play it on acousitic guitar. It is somewhat simplified.
INTRO rhythm (chords):
DF#mBmD9
INTRO lead:
D chord, hammer on/off with the third finger, i.e.:
e-|-2-2-2-2---2-2-2----|
B-|-3-3-2-3---3-2-3----| etc.. and end with D9
G-|-2-2-2-2---2-2-2----|
D-|-0-0-0-0---0-0-0----|
A-|--------------------|
E-|--------------------|
VERSE lead:
e-|-------------------|
B-|--1-1-0-1---1-0-1--|
G-|--2-2-0-2---2-0-2--| etc..
D-|--2-2-0-2---2-0-2--|
A-|--0-0-0-0---0-0-0--|
E-|-------------------|
VERSE rhythm:
AmGAmAmGAm
CHORUS lead:
e-|-1-0-1-------------------------------|
B-|-1-0-1---1-0-1---1-1-1---------------|
G-|-2-0-2---2-0-2---0-0-0---0-0-0-------|
D-|-3-3-3---2-0-2---2-0-2---0-0-0-------|
A-|-3-3-3---0-0-0---3-3-3---2-0-2-------|
E-|-------------------------3-3-3-------|
CHORUS rhythm:
FAmCGAmGAm
BRIDGE:
EmF#mDABmGG
LYRICS:
let's begin, I am ready let's begin
FAmCGAm
sell my soul to him
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shed my skin, I just wanna shed my skin
FAmCG
I don't wanna sell my soul to him
AmGAmAmGAm
mechanize, city bursts and farmers die
FAmCG
they cry, sell my soul to him
AmGAmAmGAm
sleep face down in a goods train heading south in the rain
FAmCG
sell my soul to him
EmF#mDABmG
in this world I often think you'd understand me
EmF#mDABmG
in these words I often think you'd recognize me
DF#m
'cause I just wanna swim with the fish in the sea
BmD9
and I want faith to heal so that I can be clean
[solo]
[insert Peter's rant here]
Am
I just wanna celebrate
FAmCGAm
I'm not going to sell my soul to him
when you look right in
FAmCGAm
sell my soul to him
you're gonna come on done
FAmCGAm
sell my soul to him
FAmCGAm
sell my soul to him
End.
Jonathan Hart
Oils@total.net